The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-02-10
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Domestic News

DOhueSstC NCwS
On the 4th at Butler, KY, the Licking
river was within few inches Of the highest
mark known, which was in 1854.
The Ohio river continued rising and on
the 4th was 55I feet at Cincinnati, and
fears were entertained of the worst.
Great anxiety was felt at st. Louis, Louis
vile and Evansville.
There was no material change in the sit
uation at New York and vicinity on the
4th. The railroad and transportation COM
panies were gradually adding to their force
Of freight handlers, and no outbreaks or
violence had occurred.
At Winnipeg, Manitoba, Geo. Peat
closed his store ut 6 p. m, on the 4th inst,
and meeting friends he became under the
influence of liquor, and on his way home
fell down in the street and was frozen to
death, the thermometer being 40 degrees
below zero.
The sales OF leaf tobacco in january in
Virginia were !, ,3O4, 159 pounds at an average
Of SIC. .e5 per hundred The sales for the
preceding month We're 1,62l, ,749 pounds at
October l, were 1875 pounds at an
average of $3.50 per 100 pounds.
The business failures during the last
seven days number for the United States
.2229: for Canada, 81: total, 26l, compared
with PSI last week. The failures in Canada
are numerous and important: in New York
city few and insignificant; in the other
sections Of the country about up to the
average.
One hundred and twenty of the 40 clerks
on duty at the Office of the chief signal
officer have signed petition to congress in
which they express the opinion that the
best interests OF the government would be
subserved by transferring the signal corps
of tho army to the new executive depart
ment contemplated in House bill 5, ,1gO, and
also urge that they may be made civilians
instead Of enlisted men as ut present
Heavy rains had been falling over the
country affecting the Ohio river and its
tributaries SO that it was on a rise from
Pittsburg to Cincinnati, rising Mt the rate
OF six inches an hour, and on the 3rd, the
river showed 80 feet at Cincinnati and
would soon begin the damaging work Of
submerglng the lower portions of the city
AT Portsmouth and some other points in
Ohio, much damage has occurred from the
great volume of water.
L
strike ut New York, which originated in a
| demand Of an advance from II cents to &C
| cents an hour, has now reached every trans
portation and steamship line and the whole
river front is in state of siege on both
| sides, and under guard Of 500 police and
| detectives. Nearly all the companies have
| secured some men, but only the pressing
classes of freight can be handled. Both
sides are firm and no immediate agreement
| is in prospect.
| r. G. Dun 4 Co., in their weekly trade re-
view say: Panics abroad and strikes a,
home have tested the strength Of all market,
during the past week. News, in the stric,
sense, does not afford much evidence tha,
war impends; but rumor and apprehension
have depressed stocks and lifted grain Thu,
tested, the markets have shown unexpected
solidness Foreign unloading Of American
stocks has caused but moderate decline il
prices, while even in the grain market thu
advance has been conservative and limited
and other markets have changed but little
Probably grain would have risen more hat
not the great strikes exerted a restraining
influence. Transporters are moving freigh
more freely than a week ago.